Perhaps the Japanese had been polite as they went about itpolite with that chill, grinning, hissing formality which is as ill-fitting as the cutaway coats and striped pants of their diplomats. Perhaps they had been brutal, with the special talent they have for torture.
But the manner of it was only a detail; whether for reasons of face, of propaganda, of vengeance was incidental. What the U.S. people now heard, from Franklin Roosevelt, was only that the Japanese had executed "some" of the eight American flyers captured last year after the bombing...
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